The New Mural

For the Temporary Fashion MuseumJob Wouters has made a series of four murals, each devoted to a different characteristic of fashion.

Mural Job Wouters. Photo Johannes Schwartz

Wouters began his career as a typographer. Letters and words remain important elements in the monumental wall paintings he has made in recent years. In Wouters’ work generic words and sentences take on a specific and sometimes poetic meaning due to the context in which he places them. He seeks ways of giving the letters a spatial quality through colour and form. He is particularly interested in the workings of ornamentation and the way patterns are formed by the meticulous repetition of bands.

Job Wouters will unveil his second mural during the Thursday Night on 29 October.

Since 2014 Wouters has made a series of murals in the foyer of Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Fashion has quietly renewed the very idea of renewal by constantly selling the past as a future, thereby framing current reality. This contrasts sharply with the idea that renewal always stems from technological innovation.